Hollywood is mutilating my childhood! Waaaaaaah.....

[lionofgod]

This is even worse than Narnia!

...ok, it's a *heck* of a lot worse than Narnia. The people who made the Narnia movie did it with respect, and only screwed up in a few places.

They're making a movie of The Dark is Rising. That link is to the page with the trailer. I figured out that they'd ruined it just looking at the splash screen. I was only

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[earthdragon]

There needs to be a giant spider! and Dark Ninjas! and product placement of a large SUVs!

[lionofgod]

*twitch*

...although really, adding any of those things would not change my current opinion of the movie one whit. Which should tell you something.

[tla]

I didn't know that The Dark Is Rising was being made into a movie. Now I wish I were still ignorant. That's appalling.

[roamin_umpire]

Having never heard of these books - care to fill me in on what I'm missing?

[roamin_umpire]

They're classic young-adult fantasy novels, by Susan Cooper. It's an epic good-against-evil storyline, hidden magic in the modern (ish, the books were written in the 70s) era, with Old English mythology mixed in. Very well done. I'm not really sure how to describe them properly. If you like Neil Gaiman, they have some of the same feel to them.

The first book won a Newbery Honor medal, and the third won an actual Newbury, so you're almost certain to find them in any halfway decent library or bookstore. It's a five-book sequence, but which one is first is a little odd; I'd start with the Dark is Rising, then read Over Sea Under Stone, which I think was written later even though it's temporally a little earlier. The stories and characters from those two come together in Greenwitch.

[lionofgod]

Er, that prior comment was me too, I just wasn't logged in. Oops.

In case you can't tell, these are some of my favorite books ever; and having reread the first one last night, it's not just that I read them when I was a kid and am nostalgic about them. They're still good.

They're also the reason that "Learn Welsh" and "Visit Britain" are on my list of life goals. (OK, so they had some help with the visiting Britain part, but still.)

[topologist]

They're also the reason that "Learn Welsh" and "Visit Britain" are on my list of life goals.

Welsh isn't that difficult, as languages go (although it does have some tricky bits). I'm sure amazon.com sells books on the subject. If you want to visit Britain, then take some time and money and visit Britain. (If your plan requires magical time travel, though, it's probably not going to work.)

[nakor]

She lies. She was screaming at the screen in the office. Others closed their doors. One left the building.